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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by inglor_cz on Thursday February 22, 2024 @03:21AM (#39464561)
Localized exposure is a different story, some body parts can take a lot of radiation. IDK if someone, having just burglarized a live reactor, can keep their exposure localized in a favorable place.

I think incapacitation is what matters. The human body will fight death for some time, but it won't be able to running around with a heavy backpack of fission material. Various tissues will scream bloody hell almost immediately from being torn apart by the radiation.

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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by lazide on Thursday February 22, 2024 @11:19AM (#39469313)
True, though notably the Chernobyl 'firefighters' were picking up hot chunks of core and fuel from the reactor building roof, and reported at most feeling tired at the time. They did die shortly afterwards, but that was weeks to a month after.

Definitely a death sentence either way.

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